Software is hard, people are hard, so the idea should be to have as little process as possible. Most of it exists as arse-covering material anyway. People are

Software is hard, people are hard, so the idea should be to have as little process as possible. Most of it exists as arse-covering material anyway. People are soft and squishy. Too much rigid process pevents taking advantage of that squishiness. A complete lack of process will result in those squishy humans just producing a gooey puddle. For every piece of process: * what problem does it solve? * what side-effects does it have? * are the side-effects good or bad, and how much so? * are there alternative solutions with better side-effects?